The Garden: Dwelling Place of God

God, the great Creator, begins his story by planting a garden and putting the man whom he had fashioned out of earth in it, to tend it. The garden of Eden was a holy sanctuary where God regularly communed with Adam and Eve. Scholars suggest that the descriptions of Solomon’s garden in the Song of Songs hearken back to the garden of Eden: a fruitful, intimate, inviting place where vulnerability, goodness, and rest produced an atmosphere of peaceful bliss. Throughout Scripture, the garden is pictured as the dwelling place of God. Yet the garden of Eden was not completely secure. Somehow the serpent entered, bringing death into this idyllic place.

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